How would rejuvenate Galway City?

westgolf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123476979#Comment_123476979

Agree re room for improvement.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123475868#Comment_123475868

There is already a plan in place to double the number of buses. It is being held up by the bypass despite it not needing to be at all.

Buses are already paid for by tax because the 1.35e a person pays comes nowhere near covering them.

I'm all for making it free but places that have done it tended to not see any reduction in car numbers because the tiny fare we pay is not ever the impediment to bus use. So I don't see it doing what you want it to.

phelixoflaherty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123465762#Comment_123465762

Installing speakers and playing mediocre music in a bookshop is not a good move.

what_traffic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123478172#Comment_123478172

Wasn't me who bought these speakers or installed them or designed the playlist!

So have no idea on the "moves" side of it

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123477972#Comment_123477972

Can you expand on

the type of people we looked to attract to Galway, brought business to the town centre

What exact "type of people" is that, in the context of rejuvenation (ie make-young-again)? Because I'm really not seeing young people buying books these days.

Glenomra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123494851#Comment_123494851

Have you visited Charlie Byrnes's bookshop in the last year??????

westgolf

What I had in mind is those with a higher level of disposable income. This cohort goes to a city for the unique shops, pubs,venues etc. They bring business into a city andcthud in turn feeds into development of the offering.

A main shopping area that looks like every other town and has the same phone shops, vape shops and takeaways as everywhere will gradually lose footfall and that removes the improvement churn.

CowboyTed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123478069#Comment_123478069

I generally want to exploit the bypass when it is built… 4,000 trucks a day go through Galway trying to get to and from Connemara… The bypass is needed not as much for Galway internal traffic but the external traffic going from Connemara and East Galway where public transport just dosn't really support the community enough.

But internally we need to build with more density while still making better transport roads (i.e. with cycle lanes and bus corridors)… We should be doing that now in places like the road from Clybaun hotel to Glenn Lo hotel(should be widened, cycle lane, and facilities in now, with the connecting roads into the city)…

Then we can hopefully create a space where park and ride becomes the norm rather than the exception… Park and ride would have to be quicker (or same time) and cheaper than driving your car..

I would also suggest we have a full review of why the continent of Europe are killing their citizens by putting in Roundabouts when Galway has solved the problem with Traffic Lights… These mad people in Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany… They don't understand how Traffic Lights everywhere improves traffic congestion and peoples lives…

what_traffic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553816#Comment_123553816

So essentially rejuvenate with more roads, reinstate the old multilane roundabouts and … Park and Ride.

Reads like a Galway City Council Engineers wishlist!

Speaking of the Clybaun Hotel

https://www.galwaycity.ie/services/active-travel/active-travel-services/western-distributor-road-cycle-lane

there is a DROP IN DAY today at

the Clybaun Hotel

until 19h30 this evening (2 hours and 30 minutes from this POST)

regarding Galway City Council (GCC) improving walking and cycling infrastructure along the length of the Western Distributor Road (WDR).

CowboyTed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123554071#Comment_123554071

What I am saying is to put in the cycle lanes, bus corridors now before we build all the houses… Not make it an after thought… It is not about the road itself which would be a single lane (but good enough to actually be able to take trucks properly)…

This about planning this out before we let the developers loose… We can already see it on the end of the Clybaun road, there is no space left for footpath and cycle lane between the two developments going up now…

Cheaper and more effective in the long run….

what_traffic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123555549#Comment_123555549

100% on the planning. Clybaun Road - is that "Upper" Clybaun Road near the Rahoon Junction?

I thought the Developers had left it pretty wide up there?

Many NEW Developments like Ard Cré on Ballymoneen Council have Car parking along a Road - planners creating a "Streetscape" in Suburbia.

I do laugh at the "box ticking" placement of these bike stands here the odd time I cycle by this spot https://maps.app.goo.gl/BMobndGfh9A2nZB26